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Ron Johnson: “We were $14 trillion in debt. Now we're $37 trillion in…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Interview with Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson on Federal Budget and Spending Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 02:05

But now we're into this very complex, very difficult negotiation on one big beautiful bill. It's just not getting the job done again. I ran in 2010 because we were Mortgage Our Children's Future. We were $14 trillion in debt. Now we're $37 trillion in debt. and Republicans aren't fixing the problem, we're exacerbating it. That's unacceptable. Can you see yourself voting for this big beautiful bill at all? Not, not in the current structure? (02:05–02:10)

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